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OmniTouch – Touch screen for any surface

Fake form fields for a better user experience

Going down the right Path

Gifts for User Experience Geeks 2011

A crash course in UX

Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display

A Breif Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

Social Influence on the Web: Eight UX Implementations

The iOS Multitasking Bar

Design With Dissonance

12 Creative Design Elements Inspiring the Next Generation of UX

Responsive Design: hype or solution?

Measuring Global Smartphone Impact

Web Interface Design Tip: The Yellow Fade Technique

Why Do Chairs Have Four Legs? The Cornerstones of Usable Websites

Netflix in Danger of Ruining their User Experience

Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services

How a grad student perfected the art of the TOS

Test everything you got, regardless of its polish or fidelity

Hacking Google Analytics: Ideas, Tips and Tricks

Where augmented reality and architecture collide

UI design: avoid complexity

Button Sluts and Web Actions

Designing with Your Client in Mind: 6 Questions to Ask Before You Start a New Project

Please confirm your email address A/B Test

Search Fields — What To Do and What Not To Do

Dark Patterns: May the force be with UX

Sliders Are The Most Irritating Thing To Happen To The Internet.

A CRAP way to improve usability

How Your Website Loses 7% of Potential Conversions

Visual Feedback with Conceptboard

UX Camp Brighton (UK)

HTML Tags That Support Both HTML 4.01 and HTML 5

12 Useful Guidelines: What To Do When Your Freelance Business is Slow

Some of the Best Online Invoicing & Billing Applications Reviewed and Compared

Five things you should consider when testing with children

45 Best Inspirational Examples of HTML5 Websites

5 iOS UX Improvements Apple Should Consider

25 Most Attractive Joomla Templates

Picking apart the TechCrunch redesign with a user test

The Devil is in the Detail – what does a default state say about you?

Is the Desktop Having an Identity Crisis?

Netflix Fails the Empathy Test

6 Reasons why user testing fails

iPad Usability Test: iReddit

12 of the Year’s Best Ideas in Interface Design

Gently Exceeding Expectations

UX Story Cards

Popular Methods of Website Navigation

Keynote as a collaborative wireframing tool

The London UX Job Pool – A Guide for Candidates

Website Usability Review: Gizmodo.com

FlickrBomb: fill your prototypes with relevant content

5 effective ways for usability testing to play nice with agile

Introducing HUGE UX School: a Graduate Program

An Event Apart: Crafting the User Experience

Cage simplifies collaboration for designers, clients

Are You Designing the Next Power Glove?

Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences (Voices That Matter) by Stephen P. Anderson

What makes a good UX designer?

Is “Service Design” the real “Experience Design”?

What is usability?

The Art of Design Research (and Why It Matters)

These Smurfalicious personas will engage your users

Responsive Web Design and Adapting for Mobile Designs

Usability testing with children: lessons from Piaget (1896-1980)

Website Usability Testing: What To Test

Usability in Icons

Thinking about design process: simple or complex?

Beyond the UISplitViewController

UX Karma: Guiding Principles to Simpler, Easier, Happier Design

The ‘Science’ of Good Design: A Dangerous Idea

10 Great Reasons to Usability Test

7 Steps to a Kick-Ass UX Portfolio

Test before you spend: simple early stage user testing

A simple usability/UX checklist

What 8-Bit Video Games Can Teach Us About Design And UX

PowerMockup, a Wireframing Tool for PowerPoint

Futuristic Online Sales uses Minority Report like style

The Psychology of Shop Floorplan Design

The fall and rise of user experience

Participant Centric Card Sort Analysis

Why Designers Should Give a Bleep (About Search)

Interfaces of the Future – Tactility vs. Naturality

Axureland

Can the Visually Impaired Access Your Site?

UX Lessons Learned from Buying Petfood

SXSW: How Music Can Shape Visual Design

UX is 90% Desirability

In Search Of The Perfect CAPTCHA

Boost Your Web Credibility: Learn From The Pro’s

The Godaddy UX (fail) – Results

iOS Notifications: what are the problems?

The Godaddy User Experience (fail)

Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability

What qualities do the best UX professionals have?

Usability And You: The Design Process

in:focus interview with Oliver Reichenstein of iA

edUi 2011

9 Ways to Simplify ‘Sign-Up’

A model for UX design reviews

Top posts of 2010 on 90 percent of everything

Call To Action Buttons and the Psychology of Color

iPhone Heuristic Evaluation

User Expectations: Create an Illusion of Space

Change in App Focus: Playability to Profitability

UX: The Enemy Within

Copy is Dead: Why Friendly and Simple Speech is Better than Marketing Copy

Twitter’s Creative Director Talks Design, UX and Inspiration

Free UX templates for Keynote

Thoughts on Game Center

Perception In the Design Community

College Students on the Web

24 inspirational blogs, books and articles on user interface patterns

UX and Publishing

Why I spent my weekend talking Agile and User Experience

25 reasons why I’ll leave your website in 10 seconds

How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment

Redefining the Customer Experience with Augmented Reality

Is It Time to Rethink the T-Shaped Designer?

Web Accessibility Conference

Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

Scannability: How to Highlight Text on the Web

UXPin paper prototyping tool kit (video)

Microsoft Kinect + Javascript shows huge potential for web UX

Personas and the Advantage of Designing for Yourself

Usability Testing Demystified

Mobile App Priorities: Budget vs. Innovation

500 Storyboard Tutorials & Resources

Google Introduces Instant Previews in your Search Results

User Centred Design: Techniques to Improve the User Experience

Dan Saffer: The Want Interview

Shades of Grey: Thoughts on Sketching

When you Startup with UX

Pills That Get Sick For You

Clue App

The UX Design Education Scam

So You Want to be a Designer: Top 5 List

Readability: the Optimal Line Length

Bad UX is a Bug

Myth #25: Aesthetics are not important if you have good usability

Sign Up Forms Must Die

Pattern Tap

Design for Conversion18th November in NYC

How Google tested Google Instant

What Makes Them Click? 7 Business Questions Answered With In-Page Analytics

iPad: Scroll or Card?

AB Testing: Usability from A to B

The New Room Effect: Usability Is About Comfort

End hover abuse now

Advanced Search “a pattern that many of us love to hate”

UX Week 2010

The Little Things: Behind the Scenes User Experience

Shades of Grey: Wireframes As Thinking Device

Layers Of Abstraction — What Are They And Why Do They Matter?

UXLx: User Experience Lisbon 2011

Why Sketching And Wireframing Ideas Strengthens Designs

The Future of the Book

UI Pattern Ideas: List with Functions

3 Examples of Inline Help

How and Why Design Impacts User Decisions

Bing vs Google: A Usability Face-Off

UPA 2011 International Conference – Call for Proposals (deadline extended)

User Research Friday: Circus Edition

Defining User Experience as Brand Experience

10 Great Articles from Multitouch Maven

Design with Intent (PDF)

Tips for using icons in interface design

IxDA Barcelona : 3D Cinema and Interactive TV with Raquel Navarro-Prieto of Barcelona Media

Interview with Giacomo Guilizzoni, founder of Balsamiq Studios

How to create a great wordpress layout in Photoshop

Mobile Technology for Healthcare

5 Leading Airline Booking Forms Tested for Usability

Customers as Guests

A Great User Experience Extends Beyond The Website

Mark Boulton: On defining UX

Usability and the Lowest Common Denominator

‘UX Professional’ isn’t a Real Job

UX professional is a real role, and an important one

Form Field Usability: Matching User Expectations

A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable

How do colors affect purchases?

The Future of Web Design

Designing for the Social Web – October 25th in Boston, MA

Formatting Links for Usability

Invest in user experience or fall behind

Mobile Usability Webinar

A huge list of Style Guides and UI Guidelines

Adventures in remote usability, Part 1: Why remote?

Drop-Down Usability: When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Use Them

The Importance and Different Types of Community Driven Websites

When You Startup with UX

Tips: Building Wireframes for Web UI

Silverback

Netflix – An example of multi-device UX

Ultimate guide to table UI patterns

GazeHawk: Eye Tracking For Everyone

Are You Forcing Yourself to Be Creative?

Groundhog Day, or, the Problem with A/B Testing

Seductive Interactions: a ux take

Dark Patterns: dirty tricks designers use to make people do stuff

UX WEEK 2010 | Aug 24-27 | San Francisco

12 Tools To Reevaluate And Analyze Your Web Design

Designing For The Modern Day Mobile Market

UX Challenges in Touch Interfaces

Anarchy in the UX: Engineering Desire the Malcolm McLaren Way

Patten App – New UI Design Pattern Library

UX Myths

UX Brighton 2010: A conference on designing for behaiour

Printed books on User Experience Free to read Online

A Beginner’s Guide to Design Patterns

Update: UX Leadership Model

Diving Into The User Interface With Fundamental Questions

Yahoo Style Guide

The Five Most Influential Papers in Usability

Advice from Whitney Hess for Conducting User Interviews

www.hotfrog.com.au: 16.6% improvement on sign-up page

Basecamp home page redesign

Interview with iA’s Oliver Reichenstein

Adobe ConnectNow

FAQ Pages: Best Practices and Examples

Practical intro to UX statistics

What do you use for portable wall space?

interactions: subtlety and change

10 Things I Learned In Web School

Anatomy of a Noob – Why your Mom Suck at Computers

20+ Online Tools for Website Validation and Testing

The Ultimate Guide To A/B Testing

User Interface Design for Beginners, Intermediates, or Experts?

Forms On Your 404’s

Design pricing: It’s never about the price

2-Day Usability Bootcamp

Jon Kolko On Design That Changes Human Behavior

Principle of least astonishment

Dogs on Design: Danzico’s Obedient Vizsla

When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods

The Usability Testing Process (diagram)

Radio Johnny: Nick Finck and the Collective Voice

Process: Early user research, simulation and evaluation

The Golden Rules of Usable Web Design

Interface Design Inspiration – 36 Beautiful Contact Page/Form Designs

FRONTEND 2010

Laptops vs. Desktops: The Top Five Tips When Designing Websites

Great UX with gradual engagement sign ups

“Amberlight Sponsors the MA Industrial Design Show at Central Saint Martin”

Inline Expansion – Why And Where To Use It

Interview with IntuitionHQ.com & A Giveaway for two readers

Teach Your Users Well

Tips for effective DIY Participant Recruitment for Usability Testing

Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing

An Exercise in User Experience Design to Redesign Facebook’s Privacy Settings – Part 2

An Exercise in User Experience Design to Redesign Facebook’s Privacy Settings – Part 1

3M Optimizes Your Ads For Maximum Effectiveness

Improving The User Experience Of Your Website With Modal Windows

User Stories: a strategic design tool

How User-Centered Design Can Put User Stories in Proper Context

Highly Recommended: 100 Free GUI element sets

Peter Merholz: The Want Interview

Is Your Website Usable by Everyone? Accessibility Analysis Lets You Know

Planning Your UX Strategy

IntuitionHQ.com – Usability testing tool

The Google Redesign: A Closer Look

Mouseflow

18 Do’s and Don’ts Of Usability On The Web

Guidelines for Writing a Good About Page

24 Steps-Left Pages That Enhance The User Regristration Process

Developers, UX is not UI, learn that and stop trivializing!

Twitter A/B testing sign-up button (at least 5 versions)

Average Task Times in Usability Tests: What to Report?

Search Suggestions

Don’t listen to Le Corbusier—or Jakob Nielsen

Captchas: The Anti-User Experience? Gripes and Alternatives

Designing Web Interfaces Master Class with Bill Scott and Theresa Neil

Four Steps For Effective Cross-Cultural Website Design

Prototyping: What it Means to Software Development

5 quick and easy ways to improve your website’s usability

Icons and the Web – Part 1: Why they Matter

Luke Wroblewski, The Want Interview

10 usability related websites waiting for your guest post

The Greatest Usability Test

UX Intensive | San Francisco

Usability First

Service as Negotiation

Santander Visitors Center infested by swarms of helpful robots (video)

feeling better, UX style

The Experience Belongs To the User

Estimated reading time in web design

Explaining UX Design to High Schoolers

Should Web Design be Timeless or Trendy?

Workshop on Remote UX Research

UPA 2010 International Conference – “Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience Design for the World”

30 Inspirational TED Talks on Design and Creativity

Is Your Life Just One Big RPG?

How Accessible is Your Website? 8 Tools to Analyze Your Website’s Level of Accessibility

UX Lessons Learned From Offline Experiences

Usability Testing Tool: IntuitionHQ.com

Information Architecture by Michael Cummings

LG’s Design the Future Competition

Why Bloggers Need Analytics and Usability Testing

Coupon Codes and Lost Revenue

Remember Me

UX People – less than 40 tickets left!

What does User Experience mean to you?

Usability Testing: Eye Tracking and Control

The Role of Aesthetic Design in User Experience

How To Convince Your Clients They Need Usability

eBook Interaction Design

BreezyFAQ

Strategies on How To Motivate Users to Sign Up Through Design

Personas: A sort of getting started guide

A UX Strategy Through Stories Scenarios and Sketches

The UX of search suggestions

UX Case Study: Designing a user-focused web app

UX PEOPLE

Great tips about using flags, colors and flowers in user interface (for applications and websites)

eCommerce UI Part 1: The Product Detail Page

Label Alignment in Long Forms | Paper Prototyping for Engineers

Everyday prototyping

Strategizing Web Content: The Right Strategy for Writing for the Web

4 Simple Design Elements Behind a Good Call to Action

Brainstorming

Design trends for 2010: Web development trends for 2010

UX Lx: User Experience Lisbon

3 Quick Design Patterns for Better Faceted Search

UX London

Card sorting is …

Snap! Photography and the Culture of Instant Gratification

Human Scale

Factors That Affect Usability

TranslateThis Button

Essential Books for User Interface Designers

UXD isn’t a One-Man-Show

Is The User Experience Overrated?

Good example of inline form validation

Fading navigation on the Google homepage

Beyond aesthetics – Design tips for startups

Design as a Differentiator

How wireframing makes your website designs better

Just Behave The Extended Brain, Search Marketing & User Experience Design

March 30, 2010: Enterprise Information Architecture with Lou Rosenfeld

Why do passwords appear as dots in a form

LabLog

Vertical Stack Filter: IxD Pattern

Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen

Design pricing: It’s never just about the price

Tools to Help You Better Understand User/Visitor Behavior

WebSort

50 Tips To A User Friendly Website

Who influences the user experience?

Create a Free Email Newsletter using WordPress

UX ROI: User Experience Return on Investment

What influences the user experience?

9 usability mistakes even the big boys make.

Playfulness, Usability, & Context: The Three Pillars of a Delightful User Experience

Managing Wireframes More Effectively in OmniGraffle

The UXD Stack: How We Look At Projects

5 live sketching tips every designer should know

(Almost) never add a reset button to a form

Concept Feedback – Free Website Review Community

Optimal Sort

Six Data Points to Create a ‘User Research History’

50 Most Usable RIAs

9 Easy Usability Improvements for Blogs by @Tutorial9

UX Boston (UX Book Club)

Top 10 UX Myths

Realizations of Rounded Rectangles

Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities

Creating accessible sites for users with learning & cognitive disabilities

Value Your Users

Hot Gloo

Personas and the Role of Design Documentation

The Bad User Interface Gallery

Click Tale

Tips for Being a Good UX Partner

Shopping Cart Abandonment Guide

Tools that reveal why people abandon your website

Free Icon Sets Links and Resources

SlickMap CSS – A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers

Make complete button surface active and enhance usability

Logos that change to show you they’re a ‘home’ link

Ultra Light User Experience

Content Carousels Reviewed

Login designs: the 9 worst ones and where to find good examples

On the usability of taps and the lessons for web design

Blasting the Myth of the Fold

Providing contact details

Being a Successful UX Design Manager

UsabilityTest.com – Free usability reviews

UI Scraps

Good pathway pages

Loop11 – Online, Unmoderated User Testing

Clixpy – a usability tool for webmasters

Standardizing Social Bookmarking Widgets

Don’t Click Here! – Placing Links in Context

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